Category Archives: music

Best re-issues 2019

Posted on January 3, 2020 by mc07

Kankyo Ongaku / Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 By “environmental” they must mean early analog-electro blissful simplicity.  Play around the house, and watch the mood of everything and everybody change.  This is off-world music that makes my … Continue reading →

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Best new music 2019

Posted on January 3, 2020 by mc07

Deerhunter/Why  Hasn’t  Everything Already  Disappeared? Ah, dearest Deerhunter…every few years (or other album) really strikes me repeatedly and differently.  Avant-garde tendencies couched in baroque, intricate melodies, this is lush and deep.  In my bizarro world of pop: “Element” is the … Continue reading →

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Best Reissues 2017

Posted on January 2, 2018 by mc07

  Neil Young / Hitchhiker Stoned, 70’s-prime Neil just blowing off 10 songs into a recorder.  As an animal this is Neil’s natural habitat, and the ease at which he rattles off classics and unheard songs is incredible.   Can … Continue reading →

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Best new music 2017

Posted on January 2, 2018 by mc07

Julie Byrne / Not Even Happiness These songs contain the perfect combination of elements to slowly floor me every single time I hear them.  This music sounds woody, aged and resonant.  Probably the album I listened to the most this … Continue reading →

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How ill was the Sherm ? pt. II

Posted on June 23, 2014 by mc07

So I’m watching Soul Train re-runs with the kids on Saturday morning, which is pretty normal. It’s an episode from the early 90’s (not prime period), and Stacy Lattisaw is the guest. I’m getting pretty bored by her robotic-smooth-electro-ballads, when the following occurs: Continue reading →

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Polyfauna

Posted on February 13, 2014 by mc07

The enjoyment factor: variable (depending on your current conscious state while operating). The execution: perfect (what I would imagine a Radiohead electro-dream world to be). But my favorite part is it’s purpose: none. Continue reading →

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Boris Pickett got nuthin’ on this…

Posted on October 30, 2013 by mc07

This years model is just as creepy and junky as before. Ignoring the standard monster-music fare, and focussing on early rock, jump blues, rumbling instrumentals, and other creepy kinds of party music you didn’t know you needed to hear. Continue reading →

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The other end of Rolling Thunder….

Posted on October 29, 2013 by mc07

Check out this motley-looking onslaught of 70’s clowns, outfitted with haggard turbans. The wet, gray Colorado day makes them look even worse. I have a special affinity for the Hard Rain record, because it sounds like it looks: sloppy, overworked and worn-out. Continue reading →

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astro zombie interpretations

Posted on August 16, 2013 by mc07

Demonomania: Check me out! I was born to a human prostitute and a wolf. My pride in my lupine ancestry borders on megalomania. Humans are weak and tasty. Demonomania! Continue reading →

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Gobblots, Dribcots and Saroos…..

Posted on July 19, 2013 by mc07

Why does this record still resonate with me (enough to get played every other month or so)? One very surprising element of I Hear A New World is the economy of it. For such an “out-there” proposition, the instrumentation and arrangement are fairly simple, uncomplicated. Continue reading →

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